Thursday, December 14, 2006

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1. The women on weather channel have over-plucked eyebrows.2. Making yourself a character who talks to your other characters is fun, but not innovative.3. Also, pink and red-toned eye shadow doesn't really look good on anyone. Pearly pink is lovely, but anything darker is terrible.4. I can relate to my students who have read Kurt Vonnegut and want to put themselves into their stories in sophomoric, obvious ways; but I can't relate to my students with children.5. Ever since I 5th grade, when kissing suddenly seemed more serious, I have been hyper aware of the fact that women get pregnant, and men don't, and that pregnancy is problematically more serious for women than men.6. My right tricep is very sore. Why? Do I favor it when trying to come up out of back bends?7. I own almost no t-shirts that aren't sloppy. Mary says that wearing t-shirts is the norm for foreigners in Oman, but I don't really have any t-shirts. I have big, burlap bag-like t-shirts that I sleep in, and tight slutty t-shirts I haven't worn since college and can't believe I ever wore, but nothing that is short-sleeved, nice and modest. Actually. I have three. Three short-sleeved shirts that will work. So I will bring them.8. I clipped Lester's wing feathers yesterday.9. Dear people, there are lots of things to do other than get married and have children. Dear friends who live in fairly urban or academic places who think "yeah, of course," you are unprepared for what our country is like.10. Who among you is able to plan even the most basic of events?

1 comment:

re: #9, I was talking to my g-ma recently who is very traditional and lives in kentucky. she started telling me without any prompting on my part that it was ok to not get married. that really surprised me.re: #10, I'm planning to go eat lunch, but I've been planning that, seriously planning it, for more than an hour -- what am I going to eat, whether I'm going to get decaf or regular, reading material, music. last night mark said that I blog about things other than eating lunch. we all had a good time at rod's last night.

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